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- From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
- Subject: Re: Conscious decision in a dream ?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:10:32 GMT
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- Greetings and Peace :-)-
-
- Scot Leibacher (sjl@TEFS1.acd.com) wrote:
- >Stargazer - I would like to comment on a few of your questions/statements. Let
- >me preface my remarks by saying that I have been interested in obe's for about 3
- >years and became interested as a result of reading material on life after
- >death (life, etc.) studies. At this point, it would seem to me to be true that
- >obe's are a common element of the nde's (near death experiences). I am not
-
- I would think not. In fact, the partitioning of the various
- experiences into oobe, nde, ld etc. appears somewhat artificial to me.
- In "REALITY", such a disparate approach does not reflect the inherent
- unity and connectedness of these various types of experiences. I think they
- are a result of various peoples approaching the Ultimate Reality from
- various kinds of starting points, much like tentacles trying to reach
- out and grab a greater piece of the whole jig-saw puzzle known as the
- "Mysterious Unknown". I do recall a parable of a group of blind men
- trying to describe the shape of an elephant and coming up with apparently
- contradictory descriptions like the wall, a banana, a piece of rope, snake,
- etc.
-
- >familiar yet with some of the lingo being used in this subject. In fact, our
- >sight just picked up this subject in the last three days...so basically, I'm
- >pretty green in this area.
-
- Not to worry about the lingua franca, it changes all the time :).
-
- > Now to my first comment, your logical assumptions in the above do not
- >quite cover all the bases. If the answer is eight, this does not preclude
- >the possibility that you are in DL or on Venus. In essence, we really don't
- >have a one-to-one correspondance between answer of the question and the
- >location you are at. Such a relationship would be helpful.
-
- A good reality test would demand that such a relationship holds true.
-
- >
- > I am kind of reminded of the brain teaser where a person has
- >to ask only one question to each of three people in a village of liars and
- >truth tellers. The problem is there is no way to differentiate between the
- >liar and truth-sayer, just by physical appearance. It has to be done
- >through a trick question...
-
- > The key to the "liars/truth-teller" puzzles that you give an example for
- >above, is not really that a trick question is necessary but that a question
- >that will be answered one way by one type of individual and another way by
- >another type of individual (all the time) is employed. The real key is to then
- >construct a question in such a way that regardless of the person's disposition
- >(i.e. a liar or truth teller), you will get the answer you desire.
- >
- > One variation on this puzzle is that there is one town of liars. There
- >is another town of truth tellers. The liars always lie, the truth tellers always
- >tell the truth. You want to get to the town of truth-tellers. On your journey,
- >you come to a Y in the road. One branch takes you to the city of liars, the
- >other to the city of truth tellers. You do not know which branch is which. A
- >person wanders by who is from one of the two cities. What is the one question
- >you can ask them to know which branch to take. The usual answer is "which
- >branch takes me to your home city" or some variation. This puzzle
- >breaks down if the rules are changed a little and the liar does not HAVE to
- >lie every time he answers a question. So in essence, you have to be very
- >careful of the conditions under which the question is asked. You must be able
- >to guarantee a certain response no matter what the situation in each unique
-
- The matter of the truth-teller and liar puzzle is, I believe,
- a well-known problem that has been thoroughly studied. What appears to
- be evident from these puzzles is the fact that given the questions asked,
- and the answers given by the natives, one can ALWAYS derive the correct
- answer through the decision table methodology. What is most difficult to do
- in any case, is the formulation of the question itself. That is the
- tough part, as in RT.
-
- >location (e.g. Reality, Dream Land, etc.). One would be ill advised to use a question
- >for your Reality Check such as "Can I fly", since it may not be universally
- >true even in DL that you can fly. One almost needs to find a universal truth in
- >Reality that is a universal falsity in DL. Fun, eh?
-
- Since it fails the "Universal truth" test, the flying question
- cannot be a good RT. However, the asking of the question itself, might
- serve to remind the experient of the circumstances surrounding him, and
- prompt him to look for the so-called "inconsistencies" in the Reality.
-
- >>
- >> Of course, I have heard about the simple RT, which goes something
- >>like this: Pinch yourself, ask:" Am I really dreaming?" Personally, I do
- >>not think this will work, because it seems so trivial and silly. If this
- >>is the attitude in RL, then it would be carried over to DL, and the
- >>RT would fall flat on itself.
- >>
- >> One observation: When we are in RL, we seem to be very, absolutely
- >>sure of our sense of Reality, it never seems necessary to ask any kind of
- >>MQ or perform any RT.
- >
- > I will go out on a limb and make an obvious statement, but not ALL
- >of us are always so sure/aware/able-to-ascertain the difference. I guess
- >thats what keeps psychologists in business.
-
- Most of us, I guess, most of the time, have no need to doubt the
- Physical World Reality; after all, we are at the lowest end of the
- evolutionary scale when it comes to the Earth plane. This is a compressed
- school of learning, whose pedagogical paradigm consists of suffering,
- pain, punishment and more suffering, so little wonder perhaps, that
- we do not need to doubt the reality of it all, it is so PAINFULLY obvious
- all around us :-)
-
- Just about the only time people wander out of the world of
- fixation and got a glimpse of alternate reality is through some of
- the less desirable means of alcohol, drug abuse etc. which produces
- temporary "high"s at the expense of permanent brain damage.
-
- There is of course, the better approach and that is to go about
- expanding our consciousness through means provided by meditation, oobe, ld
- and the like.
-
- The star gazer ***
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